> I've actually run into issues with drug laws from a side I never even thought about: prescription medication. I have asthma, but I don't have health insurance. Asthma inhalers in my country require a prescription.
I'm afraid this is one of the many pitfalls that occur to the most vulnerable in Society, one that is largely ignored or dismissed entirely by regulators with good intentions that ultimately keeps the status quo in place. Last year the poorly kept secret of DNMs [0] less known usecase(s) came to the light to the masses in MN regarding insulin due to shortages and rising costs--it got so bad/lucrative that they were using clearnet marketplaces.
People need to realize that DNMs are more than just access to illicit drugs, they often serve as lifelines for people to get access to generic drugs or access to less expensive alternatives (drugs/devices) to people with limited means and no access to medical insurance and the Rx to otherwise insipid things as mentioned below (Melatonin).
This is why, if nothing else, people should not be lauding these closures, which are done with tax money, and done under the guise of 'helping people' when in reality all they are doing is reducing the competition for large pharma and to an extent the drug trades of certain intelligence agencies.
I see this becoming a bigger concern as so many in the US are losing their insurance tied to their FT jobs no longer existing or being reduced to PT status due to COVID. This news is just showing how inhospitable Nation-States are and to what length they are going to impair creating alternatives and maintain their perverse model(s).
Having spent time in the Pharma-controlled Industry of Diagnostics (post Obama-care), I have come to worry more about what a Stanforite CEO like Joe Jimenez can wrought on the World more than a Pablo Escobar or El Chapo.
I'm afraid this is one of the many pitfalls that occur to the most vulnerable in Society, one that is largely ignored or dismissed entirely by regulators with good intentions that ultimately keeps the status quo in place. Last year the poorly kept secret of DNMs [0] less known usecase(s) came to the light to the masses in MN regarding insulin due to shortages and rising costs--it got so bad/lucrative that they were using clearnet marketplaces.
People need to realize that DNMs are more than just access to illicit drugs, they often serve as lifelines for people to get access to generic drugs or access to less expensive alternatives (drugs/devices) to people with limited means and no access to medical insurance and the Rx to otherwise insipid things as mentioned below (Melatonin).
This is why, if nothing else, people should not be lauding these closures, which are done with tax money, and done under the guise of 'helping people' when in reality all they are doing is reducing the competition for large pharma and to an extent the drug trades of certain intelligence agencies.
I see this becoming a bigger concern as so many in the US are losing their insurance tied to their FT jobs no longer existing or being reduced to PT status due to COVID. This news is just showing how inhospitable Nation-States are and to what length they are going to impair creating alternatives and maintain their perverse model(s).
Having spent time in the Pharma-controlled Industry of Diagnostics (post Obama-care), I have come to worry more about what a Stanforite CEO like Joe Jimenez can wrought on the World more than a Pablo Escobar or El Chapo.
[0]: https://www.govtech.com/health/Frustrated-Diabetics-Use-Inte...